Barbara Johnson Quotes

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Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.

Barbara Johnson
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

Barbara Johnson
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

Barbara Johnson
I don't have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I'm committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details.

Barbara Johnson
Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother

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Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

Barbara Johnson
Attitude is the mind's paintbrush; it can color any situation.

Barbara Johnson
You can't climb the ladder of life with your hands in your pockets.

Barbara Johnson
I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.

Barbara Johnson
If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

Barbara Johnson
Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society's tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?

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Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.

Barbara Johnson
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.

Barbara Johnson